North West Surrey
I use my E46 for parking at supermarkets - in a 1 person household I don't buy enough to qualify for free delivery. :roll:
And having spent over 18 months delivering for a supermarket chain (thankfully on a part-time basis some years ago) it is a f
g miserable job, especially when you worked evenings and the clocks had gone back!
The customers were usually great, but the store offered no support! You wonder why you get stupid substitutions, but the pickers got 36 minutes for each order and if they took longer than that the scanner on their cart would start beeping to tell them they had taken too long - hence you end up at someone's door offering Spam as a substitute for chorizo! (It must have been on the next shelf)! :lol:
Vans were hardly ever loaded when you arrived (but were supposed to be), passenger seats were removed to allow more load weight, deliveries were in one-hour slots and times were based on previous actual times so you basically had to drive quicker than the last few guys! (Not always easy with a 56 mph limiter, but you had to make it up in the corners). :lol:
You generally got 2 minutes "door time" which was postcode based - bad news when you had a 2nd floor flat with no lift, no accessible parking, plus a delivery of cat litter, bottled water and cans located in an area generally full of houses because that wouldn't justify a longer drop time.
The company sat-nav only found the street, not the house number so in the winter you'd be driving up the road using a torch (if the batteries worked, which they usually didn't - or the torch hadn't gone missing! I always took my own) looking for you destination! The team taking orders had up to date GPS locations but those trying to deliver only got those updates months later! New estates were a nightmare!
Then there would be people complaining about how you drove when they were getting in your way and management that you never met because they had gone home around the time you started working!
And you had the added joy of people who booked a delivery in a 1 hour slot but then chose to be out at that time, then chewed the ear off a call-centre operative who then shared their misery with a delivery driver who was by then miles from the "missing person". Or the tw*ts whose cards got declined because they were living beyond their means, but suddenly found a card that wasn't maxxed-out so you would have to go back to them, usually from miles away.
I did it short-term because it worked for me at the time, but please spare a thought for the poor b*gger who does your delivery for little more than minimum wage!
That was 5 years ago, but I doubt it has got any better! Rant over now! :lol:
And having spent over 18 months delivering for a supermarket chain (thankfully on a part-time basis some years ago) it is a f
g miserable job, especially when you worked evenings and the clocks had gone back!The customers were usually great, but the store offered no support! You wonder why you get stupid substitutions, but the pickers got 36 minutes for each order and if they took longer than that the scanner on their cart would start beeping to tell them they had taken too long - hence you end up at someone's door offering Spam as a substitute for chorizo! (It must have been on the next shelf)! :lol:
Vans were hardly ever loaded when you arrived (but were supposed to be), passenger seats were removed to allow more load weight, deliveries were in one-hour slots and times were based on previous actual times so you basically had to drive quicker than the last few guys! (Not always easy with a 56 mph limiter, but you had to make it up in the corners). :lol:
You generally got 2 minutes "door time" which was postcode based - bad news when you had a 2nd floor flat with no lift, no accessible parking, plus a delivery of cat litter, bottled water and cans located in an area generally full of houses because that wouldn't justify a longer drop time.
The company sat-nav only found the street, not the house number so in the winter you'd be driving up the road using a torch (if the batteries worked, which they usually didn't - or the torch hadn't gone missing! I always took my own) looking for you destination! The team taking orders had up to date GPS locations but those trying to deliver only got those updates months later! New estates were a nightmare!
Then there would be people complaining about how you drove when they were getting in your way and management that you never met because they had gone home around the time you started working!
And you had the added joy of people who booked a delivery in a 1 hour slot but then chose to be out at that time, then chewed the ear off a call-centre operative who then shared their misery with a delivery driver who was by then miles from the "missing person". Or the tw*ts whose cards got declined because they were living beyond their means, but suddenly found a card that wasn't maxxed-out so you would have to go back to them, usually from miles away.
I did it short-term because it worked for me at the time, but please spare a thought for the poor b*gger who does your delivery for little more than minimum wage!
That was 5 years ago, but I doubt it has got any better! Rant over now! :lol:
